Wk. 29, Book 29: Funky Little Photo Album, Vol. 2

for week 27 i transformed a canvas index card carrier into a little photo book to house pics that don't fit into my other photo albums or deserve their own photo book. like my mom's pics of the trip she took with friends to London in the late '60s. you can tell those girls had a BALL. i decided these gems will probably mean a lot to her travel buddy and best friend, Alaina. 

i started this book with a piece of poster board first folded in half, lengthwise, then folded in an accordion with 6 panels, and then cut along the long seam up to the last panel. my grad school teacher Kendra Kopelke taught me this fold. i covered the poster board with deco paper trimmed in velvet ribbon. the trim is thicker than the paper, so the pics don't lie totally flat on each panel, but it's still a nice effect. i especially love the pop-out 4th and 5th panels of this fold, which you can see in the pic below.

altogether, there are 16 panels in this book. the finished, folded size is 4" x 4", just right for old school pics. i want to create another photo album like this one but with a thinner trim around the edges. that velvet ribbon is nice but hard to work with.

because i love the look and feel and spirit of the 60s, i added a couple of odd-out pics that capture the middle class black party scene of those times. Alaina will appreciate that along with what is probably the last pic she took with mom at her retirement party. she'll cry when she sees that one.